Another Man's Treasure and Harran are works from Brooker and Williams' upcoming show DEADSPACE at Turner Galleries, which opens Friday March 3rd at 6pm.

DEADSPACE is a collaborative exhibition between Ian Williams and Nathan Brooker exploring the contemporary phenomenon Non-Place and its infiltration and proliferation throughout the urban landscape. Working from both the physical world and video game environments, the artists look to examine these transient places to further their understanding of contemporary abstract space.

Australian/British artist Kate Koivisto Wheeler completed a BA Design and a BA Visual Art at the Schools of Art and Design at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. Her work process is experimental and intuitive, combining drawing, sculpture and painting with other materials and techniques, to create reflective works with a poetic language and approach. In 2016, she was selected for and exhibited in four projects: Stations of the Cross 2016 (curated by Claire Bushby), SCENE 2016 (Nyisztor Studio, Melville), a solo residency at ARTLAAB, ALVA, UWA (diamondskull alchemy earth), a solo exhibition, The Three Graces (Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Gotham Studios Inc, Perth Cultural Centre); and launched her art jewellery label, DIAMONDSKULL. She is currently working on a collaborative duo project.

These Jarrah icons of native South Western Australian animals derive from my interest in miniature religious icon paintings from Europe and Ethiopia, and in the use of objects for the purposes of ritual and worship. Some Christian cultures believe that in the process of making the icons, the subject is brought to life. If only this would work for the threatened Quoll...

​Expanding upon the vocabulary of hard edge abstraction and concrete art, Jackson sets up complex spatial and colour relationships which deliver surprisingly seductive results. These works display a cool tension, competing structural elements and unexpected colour juxtapositions jostle about the eye. Seemingly oppositional formal components achieve a sense of visual harmony through Jackson’s rhythmic use of line and subtle tonal interplay.

Slipstream is from a series of works which are an exploration of mimicry and familiarity within virtual environments. Williams uses duplication and reflection in an attempt to understand the relationship between the physical world and video game spaces, examining both sides of the screen.

Williams was born in Truro, UK in 1976. He graduated from the Central Instituteof Technology in 2011 with an Advanced Diploma in Visual Arts, and in 2013completed his Bachelor of Arts at Curtin University. Ian works mainly within themediums of painting and drawing, and has work in public and private collections in Australia, including the Curtin University, University of Western Australia and Central Institute of Technology collections.

Ian was a finalist in the 2015 Bankwest Art Prize and the 2015 MacquarieArt Prize (Sydney), with recent shows at Free Range, MOP Projects (Sydney) andLinton & Kay. He is currently working towards an exhibition with Nathan Brooker at Turner Galleries.

'In the work 'This Dune Life', I was interested in combining painting and sculpture. Since moving to the coast recently I've collected a variety of objects from Shoalwater Marine Park, that reflect art history and can be combined together into still life combinations.'

‘Men, I learned somewhat later in life, “exposed themselves,” but the operation was quite deliberate and circumscribed. For a woman making a spectacle out of herself had more to do with a kind of inadvertency and loss of boundaries’ -Mary Russo

Three white female torso busts led to the project idea of the Three Graces, daughters of Zeus, from Greek mythology, and the sculpture by Canova, based on the Hellenic original (and a popular subject evident throughout art history). While representing joy, beauty and goodness, the Graces were also connected to the shadow of the Greek underworld and the Elysian mysteries, Persephone and Demeter. A chief rôle of the Graces was to entertain and serve in the divine court. Underpinned by a critique of of 'the male gaze', and observations of its Persephonic elements, the exhibition developed, as the mythical Graces initially intended for the project, gave way to a contemporary take with the Grace's Jones, Bellavue and Coddington, in relation to the concept, and a kind of reclaiming. Issues in Australia over the last months involving the Internet and images of women.The exhibition closes 7 days prior to the first anniversary of Bellavue's suicide of 15 October 2015. Jones and Coddington have both recently published their autobiographies. lifeline.org.au: 13 11 14